Mental Health
A condition that affects a person's thinking, feeling, behavior or mood. These conditions deeply impact day-to-day living and may also affect the ability to relate to others.
What is mental illness?
True or False: Medication and therapy are the most successful tools in dealing with mental health challenges.
What is TRUE?
Why don’t some people share negative feelings such as sadness, being hurt, frustration?
Worried about being judged, or laughed at or seen as vulnerable. This can be due to the stigma around dealing with our mental health.
True or False: medication is the only treatment method that works for mental health problems.
False: medication can be helpful, but therapy and counseling are also effective forms of overcoming mental illness.
Why don’t pirates take a bath before they walk the plank?
They just wash up on shore.
This is a common and serious mental health issue that negatively affects how you feel, the way you think and how you act.
What is Depression?
Give three reasons why is it important to make time for ourselves and have fun?
Self-care is important because it: • Gives us a break so we can reenergize • Helps us cope when times are harder • Releases endorphins (happy hormones) • Reduces stress • Feels good • Can help us have more energy to be helpful to others
This is a mental state achieved by focusing one's awareness on the present moment, while calmly acknowledging and accepting one's feelings, thoughts, and bodily sensations, used as a therapeutic technique.
What is mindfulness practice?
What are two things that can promote positive mental health?
Exercise, mindfulness, positive friendships, talking about your problems, having an outlet for anger and frustration, getting enough sleep, eating healthy
Hopelessness and helplessness can lead to what?
What is suicidal ideation?
Name 3 people you can go to talk to if you are having a hard time while you are here
Doctor - Nurses – Rec Therapist – Peers – Primary Therapist- Support Staff
Expressing good things from your day is a coping strategy known as ________
What is Gratitude?
Why do hamburgers go to the gym?
to get better buns
Name 3 things you can do to help a friend who thinks they may have a mental health problem.
Listen to them, spend time with them, encourage them to seek help, etc.
What has cities, but no houses; forests, but no trees; and water, but no fish?
A map
What is the difference in symptoms between bipolar I and bipolar II?
What is Bipolar I - one or more manic or mixed episode
vs.
What is Bipolar II - recurrent major depressive episodes with hypomanic episodes
Until I am measured, I am not known. Yet you miss me when I have flown. What am I?
What is Time?
While these particular things are compelling, they're not always reliable b/c they distort reality and may negatively affect how we behave.
What are feelings?
What is important to remember when you become angry?
STOP and think before acting - Respond don't react - Practice coping skills (deep breathing, counting, self-talk, etc.) - Walk away and remove yourself from the situation if needed
This hormone is released when the body is under a lot of stress and is part of the fight or flight response.
List 3 coping skills you can use when you feel overwhelmed.
Listen to music - Talk to someone - Go for a walk - Mindfulness - Workout/Exercise - Drawing/Art - Sleep/Nap - Journaling - Watch tv shows or movies
What has no hands but might knock on your door, and if it does, you better open up?
Opportunity
What are some positive effects of having a high self-esteem/self-worth?
More social, more productive, happier, in a better mood
Describe the 5 senses Coping Strategy
A technique that asks you to find things you can see, smell, hear, touch, and taste (5 senses) to calm down when feeling anxious or distressed.
What kind of running means walking?
running out of gas/steam